thank you for the opportunity to discuss our comprehensive reform of esea.ll be one of the most dramatic changes in the laws history. we will fund a military the federal role in education. we want to move from being a compliance wanted to being an engine of innovation. the urgency of these reforms has never been greater. our children and our future are at risk. so let's together to the difficult but necessary things our schools demand and our children deserve. we know that schools can transform the lives of children. we have literally thousands of examples of schools and serving high poverty populations that are accelerate student to student achievement. we need to reward him and hold them up as examples for others to follow. i thank you for all that you have done and all you will do to make education america's highest priority and greatest legacy. we need to work together to continue that legacy and to deliver world-class education for every child. thank you so much. >> thank you very much for your testimony. under previous agreement, the chair and ranking

thank you for the opportunity to discuss our comprehensive reform of esea. this will be one of the most dramatic changes in the law's history. it will fundamentally change the federal role in education. we want to move from being a compliance monitor to being an engine of innovation. the urgency of these reforms has never been greater. our children and our future are at risk. so let us together do the difficult but necessary things our schools demand and our children deserve. we know that schools can transform the lives of children. we have literally thousands of examples of schools serving high poverty populations that are accelerating student achievement. we need to reward them and hold them up as examples for others to follow. i thank you for all that you have done and all you will do to make education america's highest priority and greatest legacy. we need to work together to continue that legacy and deliver world class education for every child. thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you very much for your testimony. under previous agreement, the chair

who oftentimes call drop out factories in both urban and rural areas through the reauthorization of esea? and in that response, please include how the blueprint for reform improves middle schools so that we can stop the high dropout which occurs in grade 7, 8 and 9? >> on the middle school piece, all of the reforms we're talking about, better teachers and leaders, well-rounded education, again, not just reading and math, but science, social studies and the arts, all those things, better student supports, will impact and help middle schools to become stronger. and, again, looking at growth and gain and how much students are improving, we think is going to be very, very important. for those schools that have chronically underperformed, we had the school improvement grants, which is a $3.5 billion investment in those schools. >> can you see that middle schools get a greater amount than they have been receiving the last decade? because the -- when i have feedback in middle schools, they always compare how little they get versus the elementary and versus the high school. so that needs some sp

single piece of instructional material or professional development for a single teacher under any other esea title. closed quote. another likely consequence of h.r. 4247 is increased litigation. the bill's vague and overly broad language is an invitation to trial lawyers who will eagerly take every opportunity to sue school districts who grabble with confusing and stringent new requirements. h.r. 4247 creates a clifmente of legal dispute by ex-- climate of legal dispute by extending state-based trial lawyers, a clear recognition that seclusion and restraint should become litigation magnets. and schools will stop addressing safety issues entirely out of the fear they could be sued. instead, schools could result to law enforcement to manage physically disruptive students. that means more students in police handcuffs. mr. speaker, it's clear that teachers and school leaders need guidance on how to keep classrooms safe. seclusion and restraint is not the first choice to enforce positive behavior. if they must be used they must be used safely. it is true that the states, not the federal governmen